Black Rod must ... represents the royal authority of the crown and dates from at least 1559. Then it is time for the main event. From a throne in the House of Lords, the king reads out the agenda ...

A sking when the Crown Royal bag became affiliated with Black households may leave people scratching their heads. The actual drink, mixed with Canadian whisky, was a gift to the queen and king of ...

The purple velvet capped crown — which has an ermine band and 444 jewels including rubies, amethysts and sapphires — will be placed on King ... Black Prince ruby, which has been part of the ...

POOL/AFP via Getty Images The royal ... No wonder King Charles III will wear two of them for his May 6 coronation. The one he will actually be crowned with is St. Edward’s Crown, which weighs ...

the king in a black and yellow military uniform. The Sheikha in a silver dress with embroidery and a cream cape; the Sheikh in a black suit and gray pinstripe trousers. The Crown Princess in a ...

King Charles will wear the St. Edward’s Crown for the first and only ... some of the most famous jewels in the Royal collection, including the Black Prince’s Ruby, the Stuart Sapphire, and ...

It does not have any crown or royal ... King Charles becomes the seventh monarch to appear on stamps - Queen Victoria was the first, in 1840, when her profile was shown on a "Penny Black".

Male sovereigns, for example, do not typically wear royal regalia on coins. Yet the decision to exclude a crown in all depictions of his likeness is unusual—the last male monarch, King George VI ...

But as royal tastes and fashions changed, it was not worn again in coronations for more than 200 years. King Edward VII planned to wear it for his in 1902 and had the crown refurbished especially ...